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1860-61.] Document No. 24. 13
will be ruinous beyond measure, and we wish to be prepared
for its vigorous prosecution when the time may prove
propitious.
But is the hour of our appeal unseasonable ? Was ever any
occasion better suited to such a call ? Ever since the days
of the Kevolution have the people on the line of this road,
for 200 miles and more, been tied to South-Car«lina by na-ture's
laws, above their control. Their dependency, their
associations, and their commerce have all been with her.
To North-Carolina they have paid their taxes. Now that
the Southern cloud, long portending revolution, is ready to
burst with vehemence and tear up sovereignties to their
foundation, shall it be said that the call of 200,000 of our
citizens is unseasonable, when asking for aid to dissever
their past connections and secure to them the full benefits of
their natural allegiance ? If the time is unpropitious, it is
because this act of justice and protection has been too long
deferred ; because the welfare of her sons has too long been
neglected by the State, entrusting them to strange and for-eign
tutelage. The storm now impending proclaims that
they must now be looked to, and no longer be permitted to
wander into strange folds. We must all be one, and be all
united in interest, in feeling, and commerce. Can Georgia
coolly vote a million for muskets, and North-Carolina hesi-tate
to loan as much to reclaim, in the hour of peril, so large
a portion of her people and her territory from dominion that
in a month may be entirely foreign ?—to reclaim her sons and
her daughters, and bind them by indissoluble bonds into her
own family ?—to identify their interests, their feelings, and
their sentiments with her own?—and to add to herown wealth,
her strength and greatness, in case she must resume her sov-ereignty
and take her stand amidst the nations of the earth ?
Yes, now of all others is the time, and we trust that the im-portance
of our call and the occasion will both be alike
appreciated by our legislators, and lead to a consummation

1860-61.] Document No. 24. 13
will be ruinous beyond measure, and we wish to be prepared
for its vigorous prosecution when the time may prove
propitious.
But is the hour of our appeal unseasonable ? Was ever any
occasion better suited to such a call ? Ever since the days
of the Kevolution have the people on the line of this road,
for 200 miles and more, been tied to South-Car«lina by na-ture's
laws, above their control. Their dependency, their
associations, and their commerce have all been with her.
To North-Carolina they have paid their taxes. Now that
the Southern cloud, long portending revolution, is ready to
burst with vehemence and tear up sovereignties to their
foundation, shall it be said that the call of 200,000 of our
citizens is unseasonable, when asking for aid to dissever
their past connections and secure to them the full benefits of
their natural allegiance ? If the time is unpropitious, it is
because this act of justice and protection has been too long
deferred ; because the welfare of her sons has too long been
neglected by the State, entrusting them to strange and for-eign
tutelage. The storm now impending proclaims that
they must now be looked to, and no longer be permitted to
wander into strange folds. We must all be one, and be all
united in interest, in feeling, and commerce. Can Georgia
coolly vote a million for muskets, and North-Carolina hesi-tate
to loan as much to reclaim, in the hour of peril, so large
a portion of her people and her territory from dominion that
in a month may be entirely foreign ?—to reclaim her sons and
her daughters, and bind them by indissoluble bonds into her
own family ?—to identify their interests, their feelings, and
their sentiments with her own?—and to add to herown wealth,
her strength and greatness, in case she must resume her sov-ereignty
and take her stand amidst the nations of the earth ?
Yes, now of all others is the time, and we trust that the im-portance
of our call and the occasion will both be alike
appreciated by our legislators, and lead to a consummation